1 Earthquake: Greece's government announced emergency relief for residents of the Ionian islands of Kefalonia and Ithaki on Monday, a day after they were hit by a 5.9-magnitude earthquake that caused property damage and slightly injured seven people. Sunday's quake was followed by dozens of aftershocks that continued Monday. Two ferries with a combined capacity of nearly 4,000 passengers were dispatched to Kefalonia to provide housing for residents whose homes were damaged.

2Activists on trial: Four members of the New Citizens Movement - a Chinese grassroots group promoting clean government and fairness in education - stood trial on charges of disrupting public order on Monday, a day after the group's founder, Xu Zhiyong, was sentenced to four years in prison. The prosecutions come amid the Chinese leadership's broader crackdown over the past year on dissent, including the silencing and detentions of influential bloggers and advocates for minority rights in Tibetan and Muslim Uighur areas.

3 Antigay attack: An angry mob ransacked the headquarters of Ivory Coast's most prominent gay rights organization, an official said Monday, underscoring the dangers such groups face in Africa even in the few countries where homosexual acts are not crimes. The attack occurred after multiple days of antigay protests in Ivory Coast, a country generally viewed as moderate and sometimes considered a haven for homosexuals fleeing persecution elsewhere. On Saturday afternoon, nearly 200 people stormed the offices of Alternative Cote d'Ivoire in Abidjan, said Claver Toure, the group's executive director. A security guard was wounded.

4 Hostages released: In a coordinated swap, Egypt released a Libyan militia commander detained over suspected links to the Muslim Brotherhood while six abducted Egyptians, including two diplomats, were released in Libya, officials said Monday. The six Egyptians were seized from their homes late Friday and early Saturday in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. One of the purported kidnappers said in a telephone call to the Al-Arabiya TV network that the Egyptians would not be freed until the Islamic militia commander, Shaaban Hadiya, was released by Egypt.

5 Nigeria violence: Suspected Islamic extremists used explosives and heavy guns to attack a village in one state and a church in another in Nigeria's northeast, killing about 99 people and razing hundreds of homes, officials and witnesses said Monday. The attack Sunday night on Kawuri village in Borno state, which killed 52 people, resulted in one of the highest death tolls in recent assaults by militants who are defying an 8-month-old military state of emergency in three states in northern Nigeria designed to halt an Islamic uprising. The church was attacked Sunday in Wada Chakawa village in Adamawa state.

6 Holocaust memorial: Auschwitz survivors and Israeli officials on Monday marked 69 years since the liberation of the Nazi death camp in Poland. The ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial took place on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, established by the United Nations in memory of 6 million Holocaust victims, and the 1.5 million victims of Auschwitz, who were mostly Jews. Around 60 members of the Knesset, or half of the Israeli legislature, joined the survivors for the observances.